Indie Developer

Developer & Growth Goblin

About

I am a full stack developer with marketing chops, I have seen several products from conception to launch and I particularly enjoy getting from 0 to initial traction.

Idea

A service that you can use to automatically give discounts based on your customer's purchasing power calculated using the Big Mac Index https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index
I have often given discounts in the past to potential customers from countries with starkly lower purchasing power. $29 in India buy you a whole lot more than in San Francisco. This fact is captured by the big mac index. Startups can start pricing their products in big macs and take advantage of basic price discrimination that is built into location based business by default. It is both fairer to customers from countries with lower purchasing power compared to the dollar and has the potential to increase revenue by capturing a market that would otherwise not buy.
The MVP would consist of a javascript snippet to apply the discount in the front end and a stripe plugin to synchronize the discount with the payment backend.

Building MindIQ

Founder+Developer

About

I'm a developer and SAAS founder.

Idea

The Internet is a dangerous place and more people should use VPNs to help improve their security and privacy. But trusting a VPN provider isn't much different than trusting your ISP not to spy on you. Ideally, you'd be able to setup your own VPN on a remote server and manage it yourself. Confident in the fact that your browsing wasn't being snooped on. While there are some open source apps that can assist with this they require a sysadmin/developer level of expertise that not everyone has (SSH'ing, compiling, etc.)
Through clever use of APIs and rigorous UX practices, I want to file down the sharp corners of the process of VPN setup so that a privacy-minded individual can reasonably get their own VPN going in a matter of minutes.

I’m Kelwyn from London, England! Currently I work at Pearson (the education company), where I lead on so-called “Special-Projects”, namely looking into Employability, Skills and the Future of Jobs, and where we have a commercial opportunity to play in that space. I’m an ex Investment Banker (M&A at Rothschild) and used to work for Manchester United (the football team). My motivation for making / collaborating and learning from cool people like yourselves is to better build my digital footprint in order to become a more authentic leader, but first and foremost to solve problems that I’ve personally had or simply for fun.

Idea

1. Education: open access to high-quality educational tools and content to communities that need them the most. This could come from underused sources like government documents, business publications etc or more traditional ones familiar to this community. Reverse mentoring, reskilling and supporting opportunities for Gen Z are also of interest.
2. Social Impact: particularly keen on tools to support with government and / or large corporate transparency, accountability and provenance, particularly those with opaque supply chains (i.e. not FMCG). Anything SDG related is also up my street.
3. Random: anything that is fun, creative and out of the box. I'd put my own sideproject icebreakery.com in that category!